An update to the add-in WakeOnLan has been released which integrates it into the Launchpad which now makes it possible to wake up your computers from the Lauchpad on every connected computer. More details on WakeOnLan are available from here.
The Home Server Show podcast have an extra episode available. This extra episode has John and Jim talking about Vail builds, mControl, XenServer from Citrix and some tuner card chat, which you can find here.
Robert Stinnett one of our contributors here at mswhs.com has a bunch of Windows Home Server pens and some blue heavy-silicone round stickers to give away – enough for 20 people. So if you live in the States and are prepared to send Robert a self addressed stamped envelope (SASE) then the first 20 people […]
Website “Using Windows Home Server” have got 10 two year subscriptions to HomeServerSync to give away. The add-in enables you to backup your Home Server online, synchronize your Home Server and PCs and join both together in their own private and secure VPN network, plus there’s lots more it can do too. The first 2 […]
Tentacle Software have a new add-in called Blackbox for Windows Home Server. The add-in provides in-depth real-time monitoring from your motherboard, disk, UPS, and graphics card hardware sensors and allows administrators to define alerting rules to take actions when a sensor exceeds a specified threshold. Key Features include: Real-time monitoring of supported hardware sensors Administrator-defined […]
High-tech news site eWeek.com have concerns over the positioning and options for customer growth for Aurora. Their 2 page article is worth a read as it asks the question what will Aurora customers have down the road as their company grows beyond Aurora’s preset licensing limitations and user cap. You can read it here.
Many Windows Home Server users used Live Mesh with their servers, until it was renamed Windows Live Sync that was. Today its been announced that Windows Live Sync will be called Windows Live Mesh when released this fall and as well as resorting to its previous name the service will also include 5GB for online […]
Nick Asseloos from Asoft has just released version 1.1 of the WHS Version Vail Developer Kit. The kit is an all-in-one package for those of you who want to create/build/install an add-in for Vail. Version 1.1 supports the latest version of Windows Home Server – build 7659 – and contains a lot more information than […]
TechAU.TV down in Australia have a video where they are interviewing Rosemary Stark and Jeff Alexander from Microsoft to discuss the upcoming releases of Windows Home Server. Both Vail and Aurora are talked about in this 20 minute video.
After our warning the other day about using advanced format hard drives in version 1 of Windows Home Server, Microsoft have also published a Knowledge Base article explaining the problem. The article (KB2385637) explains that if you are using one of these drives in Windows Home Server v1 for either Server Backup, the Storage Pool […]
